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The meaningful is often buried in the meaningless. “The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.” — Nate Silver In a world flooded with information, separating the useful from the useless becomes a superpower.Thanks for reading MindVault! Subscribe for…
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The more people around us adopt a certain viewpoint, the more we are inclined to represent that viewpoint in front of the group as well — whether or not we actually believe it. We succumb to representing or even accepting false beliefs and attitudes due to our intrinsic need to…
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Errors are the default. It is more likely that things go wrong than right. Life has three certainties: death, taxes, and the fact you will screw things up sometimes. Errors are the default.Thanks for reading MindVault! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
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What looks like an either-or scenario is frequently a lot more nuanced in reality. Our brains are desperately trying to simplify the situations we are in since the world is becoming more complicated and difficult to understand. It is challenging to comprehend and account for…
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We overestimate the importance of what is and underestimate the importance of what is not. What we don’t do matters as much as what we actually do. But…
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Focus only on where control and concern meet. We care about a wide range of things in life. But only some of those, we have control over. Likewise, we…
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As you can get stuck in the void of comfortable complacency somewhere in the middle, sometimes you’re better off if you’re worse off. When our job is…
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If we only know little, we think we know a lot. If we know a lot, we think we only know little. When we are incompetent at something — either a task or…
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Disorder increases over time — it is more likely that things go wrong than right. “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its…
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We need to consider not only the effects of our actions but also the effects of these effects. All of our actions produce consequences — both those we…
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We can get satisfaction but we can’t keep it. As our gains increase, our expectations and desires rise in tandem. Mick Jagger sings that he “can’t get…
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